Rep. Peter King launches air strike on Paul

Rep. Peter King says he’s considering a run for president because someone needs to counteract forces in the Republican Party, singling out Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.

“I’ve said I certainly would consider the race and the main reason right now is to shift the debate. It bothers me when the leading Republicans out there, someone like Rand Paul, seem more concerned about an American being killed in Starbucks by a CIA drone than he is about Islamic terrorism,” the New York Republican said Friday morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“Luke that’s that whole Buffalo blood in you coming back, always seeing conspiracies or fighting. No, actually there’s no conspiracy here. … This is just a number of people who are very concerned, there’s virtually no one out there on the presidential level talking about national security,” King said.